We do this a lot at the shop I work for, however, we do not use an oven, and I actually suggest you don't either.
The better way to do it is to use a heat gun. Strip the motherboard down, place it on a hard surface, cook both sides of the motherboard for 5 minutes each, being careful not to apply too much heat in one place.
Voila! Same result, more likely to last longer than an oven-baked board.
Hopefully you get the motherboard working again. Once that happen, backup your system and files, find your product key and most importantly, look for a new motherboard.
Just as an aside, I had a LCD TV that I replaced a couple capacitors on the power supply board, but it didn't work. I did the baking method and IT WORKED! It has been working for many months now.
perfect_flaw87
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November 24th, 2015 08:00
We do this a lot at the shop I work for, however, we do not use an oven, and I actually suggest you don't either.
The better way to do it is to use a heat gun. Strip the motherboard down, place it on a hard surface, cook both sides of the motherboard for 5 minutes each, being careful not to apply too much heat in one place.
Voila! Same result, more likely to last longer than an oven-baked board.
lar-m1210
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December 12th, 2015 08:00
Update - Still running flawlessly!
LSUFAN51
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December 12th, 2015 15:00
I've heard of the method, glad to know it does works. Thanks for sharing.....:emotion-2:
PVX
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December 14th, 2015 03:00
This is a brilliant way to breathe new life into older boards. I'll second that the heat gun is a better method than a regular oven.
lar-m1210
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December 16th, 2015 14:00
OK, it died again today. I will give another bake tomorrow.
LSUFAN51
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December 17th, 2015 07:00
:emotion-2:
Hopefully you get the motherboard working again. Once that happen, backup your system and files, find your product key and most importantly, look for a new motherboard.
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December 17th, 2015 08:00
" Four days now without a glitch (fingers crossed), and this 8 year old laptop is running windows 10 like a champ. Voilà ! "
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Wait a minute there ! You know that Dell doesn't list any windows 10 drivers for your laptop? That's probably why the motherboard has fail again.
www.dell.com/.../drivers
lar-m1210
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December 17th, 2015 12:00
Yes, freshly baked and running well. I installed a linux distro that seems less taxing on this old machine.
lar-m1210
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December 17th, 2015 12:00
Everything worked but the webcam. Wifi is iffy.
However, I have installed Elementary OS linux.Way less taxing on the system. With windows 10 the hard drive ran constantly.
lar-m1210
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February 19th, 2016 08:00
Update - It has been two months now and it is still running great. My last bake was at 400 for 9 minutes.
LSUFAN51
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February 20th, 2016 08:00
I've suggested this solution to some of my friends, all of them said their computers are working again.
Thanks again..... :emotion-2:
lar-m1210
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June 16th, 2016 06:00
It has been six months now and I use this laptop 2-3 hours a day. No problems.
lar-m1210
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August 15th, 2016 15:00
Just as an aside, I had a LCD TV that I replaced a couple capacitors on the power supply board, but it didn't work. I did the baking method and IT WORKED! It has been working for many months now.
ellaquilt20
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August 15th, 2016 16:00
that is a real trefic job/
lar-m1210
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December 23rd, 2016 14:00
Over a year and still running well.